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SUMMARY:HCRC Student Circle – March 2026
DESCRIPTION:The Student Circle is a low-key\, online space to exchange ideas and share what you’re working on. It’s a chance to connect with like-minded learners across disciplines. \nThe Housing Commons Research Centre Student Circle welcomes undergraduate and graduate students\, post-docs\, and lifelong learners who are curious about community-led housing. \nEach session is informal: you can share your work\, listen in\, ask questions\, or join to meet others exploring similar topics. Whether you’re deep in a project or just beginning to think about housing futures\, you’re welcome. \nLearn\, reflect\, and build community with us on the third Tuesday of each month. \nSave the date! Reserve a spot here when announced.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/student-circle-mar-2026/
CATEGORIES:Student Circle
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SUMMARY:Loyal to the Soil: Eco-villages and Eco-communities in Canada
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with practitioners exploring collective land-based living\, climate resilience\, and the barriers facing eco-villages in Canada. \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nThis conversation looks beyond idealism to examine the legal\, cultural\, and structural barriers to climate-conscious collective living. \nCommunities across the country are searching for ways to address housing affordability and climate change together. Loyal to the Soil brings together practitioners from ecovillages and ecocommunities representing different regions to explore how collective\, land-based living can support both climate resilience and social equity\, and why these models remain the exception rather than the norm. \nWhat We’ll Explore\n• Housing affordability and climate resilience\n• Collective land stewardship and ecovillages\n• Rural\, agricultural\, and urban contexts across Canada\n• Structural barriers to land-based living\n• Governance\, intentional community\, and shared housing models \nJoin the Conversation\nThis HCRC webinar invites planners\, researchers\, organizers\, and community members into a grounded conversation about housing\, climate resilience\, and collective land stewardship in Canada. \nRSVP on Eventbrite \nSpeakers\nKillick Ecovillage Co-operative — Wendy Reid Fairhurst\nWendy Reid Fairhurst is a founding member of Killick Ecovillage Co-operative\, a 57-acre regenerative farm and planned 51-unit mixed-income cohousing community near St. John’s\, Newfoundland and Labrador. The project is adapting the Mutual Home Ownership Society (MHOS) model to make rural ecovillage living more accessible. She also helps lead Reclaim Community CDO\, sharing tools and lessons from the project to support community-led housing initiatives across Canada. \nBiblioterre — Rob Cole\nRob Cole is chair of the agroecological co-op Biblioterre and treasurer of Habitation Biblioterre\, a housing co-operative near Wakefield\, Québec on the unceded territory of the Algonquin Anishnabeg. His work connects affordable housing\, agroecology\, and collective land stewardship through farming\, reforestation\, and community projects. Outside the co-op\, he works locally as an arborist. \nJunction Village Community Land Trust — Mary-Kate Craig\nMary-Kate Craig (she/her) is a community catalyst\, researcher\, and co-founder of Junction Village Community Land Trust in Guelph\, Ontario. Her work focuses on housing transformation\, land stewardship\, and regenerative futures. Through Junction Village\, she is helping to develop an urban intentional community grounded in shared spaces\, collective governance\, and long-term land stewardship.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/loyal-to-the-soil-collective-land-living/
CATEGORIES:Webinars
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SUMMARY:On Bricks Bonds and Belonging: Material and Relational Theories of the Commons
DESCRIPTION:Update: View Webinar Recording \nDive into the connections that build our communities\, from the homes we live in to the bonds we share. \nReserve Your Spot \nWhat does it mean to build the commons\, literally and figuratively\, within a housing system founded on principles of private property\, financialization\, and individual ownership? \nThis session brings together urban scholar Susannah Bunce and architect and housing researcher Karen Kubey for a focused conversation on how the commons operates across scales: from built form and design decisions to governance structures\, land use policy\, and everyday practices of care and collective life. \nMoving beyond the commons as an abstract ideal\, the discussion will explore: \n\nhow collectivity is (or isn’t) embedded in housing design\nhow planning\, regulation\, and property systems constrain or enable shared living\nhow the commons is sustained through relationships\, labour\, and social infrastructure\n\nThis session will feature short presentations from each speaker\, followed by a moderated dialogue and audience Q&A. \nSusannah Bunce – Dept of Geography & Planning U of T\nDr. Susannah Bunce’s research centres on the geographies and planning of urban communities and neighbourhoods and sustainable community building. She engages with critical theories of urban commons and alternities\, gentrification\, environmental justice\, urban political ecology\, and more-than-human geographies to examine localized issues and politics of land use and community-based socio-environmental identifications with local spaces. She is also interested in contestations caused by gentrification and other housing/land-based struggles. Her research also focuses on insurgent responses and more hopeful\, future-oriented community-engaged practices\, particularly those related to affordable and equitable land stewardship such as urban community land trusts and urban eco-villages. \nKaren Kubey – Daniels Faculty of Architecture U of T\nKaren Kubey is a New York- and Toronto-based urbanist specializing in housing design and spatial justice. She is the editor of Housing as Intervention: Architecture towards Social Equity (Architectural Design\, 2018) and served as the first executive director of the Institute for Public Architecture. Kubey co-founded the New York chapter of Architecture for Humanity (now Open Architecture/New York) and co-founded and led the New Housing New York design competition. Her work brings together architects\, policy and finance experts\, and community leaders to develop projects that contribute to more equitable housing and neighbourhoods.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/on-bricks-bonds-and-belonging/
CATEGORIES:HCRC Discussion Series
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SUMMARY:In Conversation with Dr. Tuna Taşan-Kok on Spatial Governance Landscapes: Regulation\, Property\, and Planning
DESCRIPTION:Register Online \nIn Conversation with Tuna Taşan-Kok \nOur final session of the season turns to a big question:\nHow are cities actually made? \nDrawing on their new book Spatial Governance Landscapes: Regulation\, Property and Planning\, Dr. Taşan-Kok\, Sara Özoğul\, and Andre Legarza will discuss how planning regulation\, property systems\, and investment logics interact to shape housing outcomes and urban development. \nDr. Tuna Tasan-Kok is Professor of Urban Governance and Planning at the University of Amsterdam and a member of the International Advisory Committee of the New Housing Alternatives (NHA) Partnership.  \nThis is a chance to move beyond abstract debates and better understand the systems that shape what gets built… and what doesn’t. \nMay 28 – 12:00–1:00 PM (ET)\nRegister on Eventbrite \nWe hope you can join us to close out the season. \nMore to come in the fall.
URL:https://housingcommonsresearch.ca/event/tasan-kok-spatial-governance/
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